Having grown up in a hunting family, Bill Brandon’s article in Learning Solutions Magazine entitled Leading the Target: Challenges for 2017 caught my attention. His forecast for 2017 is on the mark. […]

4 Responsibilities of the Learning Professional

The founders of the communities of practice movement outline what helps a community success and what can cause it to fail. Annotations: Success factors Passion for domain Internal leadership Energized core group Focus on practice Trust Community rhythm Learning trumps power Personal touch: High value for time High expectations Engaged sponsorship Skilled sup […]

APR 2019 - Thalheimer presents his LTEM approach to learning evaluation - an alternative to the Fitzpatrick 4 level model that has been in place in corporate training since the 1950's. While LTEM does cover the same types of "evaluation" and Fitzpatrick, which he characterizes as invalid and not based in anything evidentiary, it goes well beyo […]

DEC 2018 - Hagel argues that to truly embrace life long learning, we need to rethink our institutions, restructuring them to enable employees to explore their passions with other who share those passions. He argues that this would empower greater learning, innovation and productivity. The focus of these new institutions will be to drive scaleable learning. A […]

MAR 2013 - John Hegel and John Seeley Brown discuss the need for industrial innovation as a foundational component of new organizational architectures to ensure the flexibility and innovation required in a world economy that is continually accelerating. They argue that key to the effort to drive innovation, creative spaces have been showing promise. Annotati […]

MAR 2018 - This compilation of articles by Mike Taylor is a treasure trove of top of the industry thinking regarding collaboration and workplace learning. Definitely worth bookmarking and coming back to over and over again. Tags: curation collaboration modern workplace learning […]

JAN 2018 - Simon Terry looks at the factors that help people adapted to a more connected, collaborative workplace. Providing quality and consistent examples of desired behaviors, actively encouraging collaboration and the right activities are the human dimension of collaboration in communities. Annotations: Ensuring your people have the tools to collaborate […]

xxx 20xx - This is a great, high-level walkthrough of the structure of an LRS (Learning Record Store). Annotations: The first step is to get an in-depth understanding of the complete xAPI specification itself LRSs have to be able to handle every possible request an activity provider could send and are responsible for validating those requests If you decide t […]